I omitted to write about the dining experience.
We chose to go for a curry in Brick Lane which is a street of Indian curryhouses touting for your business.
After walking passed a few we were invited by a "tout" to use their facility and we made as to move off and he started to offer a discount.
By the time we accepted his invitation to dine he had offered two pints or two wines each and a 30% discount overall - so 3 of us enjoyed excellent curries with drinks for a total cost of less then 45 quid!
This morning we went to the "High St" to order a mini-cab to take us to London Victoria station to catch the Gatwick Express - a 6am pick-up tomorrow morning doesn't sound like fun but it has to be done.
This afternoon we took the underground to go to Knightsbridge but as we arrived at King's Cross the alarms went off and we had to exit the underground before we could get onto the next train that we needed.
Feeling like chooks with heads cut off we consulted a small pocket map to try and find the best way to Knightsbridge - a 7 or so minute walk to Euston Station and back on the underground got us there not long after.
Walked out of the underground and straight into Harrods - while we can now say we have been into Harrods it wasn't a shop that had a nice feel about it unlike Hamleys yesterday.
After Harrods we then did a walk around Knightsbridge, Chelsea & Belgravia to see how the other half live and I have to say if the Ferraris and other prestige cars either parked or driving around the area were any indication then they are living quite nicely thank you.
Walked passed many of the embassies in around Belgrave Square ending up at Hyde Park Corner station which coincidentally was the first underground that we exited when we started our sightseeing in London last Monday morning - so we can confirm that we have gone full circle.
A final journey on the underground got us home to allow time to repack the suitcases.
London has been an enjoyable city but I agree with John Cleese that it appears to have lost its Englishness given the number of foreign speakers that you hear in the street.
And a question for the banks operating in the NZ market - why can the banks here in London offer free withdrawals from ATMs no matter which bank you are with whereas you scoundrels want to charge a fee for non-customers?
We chose to go for a curry in Brick Lane which is a street of Indian curryhouses touting for your business.
After walking passed a few we were invited by a "tout" to use their facility and we made as to move off and he started to offer a discount.
By the time we accepted his invitation to dine he had offered two pints or two wines each and a 30% discount overall - so 3 of us enjoyed excellent curries with drinks for a total cost of less then 45 quid!
This morning we went to the "High St" to order a mini-cab to take us to London Victoria station to catch the Gatwick Express - a 6am pick-up tomorrow morning doesn't sound like fun but it has to be done.
This afternoon we took the underground to go to Knightsbridge but as we arrived at King's Cross the alarms went off and we had to exit the underground before we could get onto the next train that we needed.
Feeling like chooks with heads cut off we consulted a small pocket map to try and find the best way to Knightsbridge - a 7 or so minute walk to Euston Station and back on the underground got us there not long after.
Walked out of the underground and straight into Harrods - while we can now say we have been into Harrods it wasn't a shop that had a nice feel about it unlike Hamleys yesterday.
After Harrods we then did a walk around Knightsbridge, Chelsea & Belgravia to see how the other half live and I have to say if the Ferraris and other prestige cars either parked or driving around the area were any indication then they are living quite nicely thank you.
Walked passed many of the embassies in around Belgrave Square ending up at Hyde Park Corner station which coincidentally was the first underground that we exited when we started our sightseeing in London last Monday morning - so we can confirm that we have gone full circle.
A final journey on the underground got us home to allow time to repack the suitcases.
London has been an enjoyable city but I agree with John Cleese that it appears to have lost its Englishness given the number of foreign speakers that you hear in the street.
